Honda is considering building a new plant in the United States as it expands gasoline-electric hybrid production. After cancelling three battery-electric models planned for the US earlier this year, the automaker plans to roll out 15 new hybrid models by March 2030, primarily for North America. An executive vice president said Honda needs additional capacity to meet demand and that the next factory should be in North America.

Options traders price an implied post-Q2 move for NVIDIA (NVDA.O) of ±5.4% for Thursday trading after Wednesday's after-hours results, down from the ~6.5% implied before May's report. At ±5.4% NVIDIA's market cap would swing roughly $280bn. ORATS data show the 5.4% figure is below the 12-quarter post-earnings average of 7.4%. ORATS founder Matt Amberson said the market has grown somewhat complacent and NVIDIA’s results have become more predictable. Susquehanna derivatives co-head Chris Murphy said the era of repeated, outsized earnings shocks—10–20% moves driven by large AI-era beats—has, to some extent, passed and the market does not broadly expect another large surprise.

Front-line forces may need a new drone design within weeks, but Ukraine's defense industry faces a severe shortage of engineers that could slow innovation. BlueBird Tech COO Yurii Faraponov said the company cannot meet some frontline requests due to insufficient engineering staff. Sergii Vysotskyi, deputy chairman of the Ukraine Defense Industry Association, said some firms are asking retired specialists to return to work. Ukraine's working-age population has fallen for decades and accelerated since 2022; industry sources say the shortfall is eroding the strategy of using technology to offset manpower disadvantages as weapons systems become more complex.